The Mexican American Hat Company was a result of activity by the Breese Chamber of Commerce, from which the Breese Building Coroporation was born.  The company manufactured hats and were shipped by rail to it’s customers throughout the country from the Breese Depot

More information on this business as well as other business and more can be found in the 2006 Breese Sesquicentennial Pictorial History book.  Copies are available from the Breese Historical Society